12 I ask that you may give thanks to the Father who has made us fit to receive our share of the heritage of the saints in the light.
13 For he has delivered us out of the dominion of the darkness, and transplanted us into the kingdom of his dear Son,
14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.
15 He is a visible image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;
16 for in him was the universe created, things in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; by him and for him all have been created;
17 and HE IS before all, and in him all things subsist.